. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. eived it to be his duty to present theFlos Passionis to the world as the most wondrousexample of the Croce trionfatite discovered in forest orfield. The flower represents, he tells us, not so directlythe cross of our Lord, as the past mysteries of thepassion. It is a native of the I
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. eived it to be his duty to present theFlos Passionis to the world as the most wondrousexample of the Croce trionfatite discovered in forest orfield. The flower represents, he tells us, not so directlythe cross of our Lord, as the past mysteries of thepassion. It is a native of the Indies, of Peru, and ofNew Spain, where the Spaniards call it * the Flower ofthe Five Wounds, and it had clearly been designed bythe great Creator that it might, in due time, assist inthe conversion of the heathen among whom it to the bell-like shape assumed by the flowerduring the greater part of its existence (i. e., whilstit is expanding and fading), Bosio remarks: And itmay well be that, in Ills infinite wisdom, it pleased himto create it thus shut up and protected, as though toindicate that the wonderful mysteries of the cross andof his passion were to remain hidden from the heathenpeople of those countries until the time preordained byHis Highest Majesty. The figure given to the Passion-. 1649. Old conception of the Passion-flo^ Folkards Plant Lore, and there taken from Zalin. flower in Bosios work shows the crown of thorns twistedand plaited, the three nails, and the column of the flag-ellation just as they appear on ecclesiastical banners,etc. The upper petals, writes Bosio in his description, are tawny in Peru, but in New Spain they are white,tinged with rose. The filaments above resemble ablood-coloured fringe, as though suggesting the scourgewith which our blessed Lord was tormented. The col-umn rises in the middle. The nails are above it; thecrown of thorns encircles tbe column; and close in thecenter of the flower from which the column rises i
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